Franco American Library

Contras, Squares & Rounds : Fiddling the Night Away at Local Dances

Author: Sharrow, Gregory L.

Date: 2002-11-00

Publication: Visit'n: Conversations with Vermonters

Volume: 8

Language: en

Find in a Library: 36559489

Article compiled from oral history interviews of Vermont musicians in the twentieth century. Featured in the Vermont Folklife Center's annual publication, "Visit'n." From the Vermont Historical Society: "Includes reminisces by Franco-American fiddler…

Tags: Community: Customs and Social Life, Ethnicity and Collective Identity, Folklore, Music, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- History -- Documentary, Nonfiction -- History -- Labor and Social, Nonfiction -- History -- Local, Performing Arts, Personal History: Biography and Oral History, Social History, Vermont

Death and Rebirth of the American Mill Town

Author: Dawley, Alan

Date: 1981 Autumn - 1982 Spring

Publication: Labour/Le Travail

Volume: 8/9

Language: en

Find in a Library: 181819835

Essay on the divisions of power and labor in industrialized American economies - more specifically, mill towns - as transformations of earlier forms of authority in America. Uses the thought-work of Marx, Durkheim, and Weber, as well as the social…

Tags: Business and Economics, Community: Customs and Social Life, Labor History, Mills and Mill Work, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- Government and Politics, Nonfiction -- History -- Economic and Industrial, Nonfiction -- History -- Labor and Social, United States

The New England League: A Baseball History, 1885-1949 (review)

Author: Akin, William E.

Date: 2009

Publication: NINE: A Journal of Baseball History and Culture

Volume: 17

Language: en

Find in a Library: 45629425

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Review of Charlie Bevis' 2008 history of the New England League - a minor baseball league that entertained the US Northeast for decades around the turn of the century.

Tags: Boston MA, Business and Economics, Government and Politics, Lynn MA, Nashua NH, New England, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- History -- Labor and Social, Nonfiction -- Sports, Social History, Sports and Leisure, War

First-Person America

Author: Banks, Ann

Date: 1980 (1991)

Language: en

Find in a Library: 6448346

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Edited and annotated compilation of oral histories from the Federal Writers' Project of the 1930s Works Progress/Projects Administration (WPA) in the United States. These selections come mostly in the form of short passages that aspiring writers…

"Why Don't You Be a Klansman?" Anglo-Canadian Support for the Ku Klux Klan Movement in 1920s New England

Author: Richard, Mark Paul

Date: 2010-12-00

Publication: American Review of Canadian Studies

Volume: 40

Language: en

Find in a Library: 690210682

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From the author: "This article examines a little-known dimension to the Ku Klux Klan movement in the United States during the 1920s. As Anglo-Canadian Protestants supported the KKK to assert control over French-Canadian and other Catholics in the New…

Les "Chinois" de l'est, ou, la vie quotidienne des QueÌbeÌcois Ã©migreÌs aux Ã‰tats-Unis de 1840 aÌ€ nos jours

Author: Lafleur, Normand

Date: 1981

Language: fr

Find in a Library: 10019101

Find Online: OL3071754M

Lafleur prends la phrase "les Chinois de l'Est" d'une description pejorative de la franco-ameÌricanie et l'utilise aÌ€ illustrer la vie et l'histoire franco-ameÌricaine. Le texte concerne la Nouvelle-Angleterre en totale, mais sa centre…

Family and Population in Nineteenth-Century America

Author: Hareven, Tamara K. (editor)
Author: Vinovskis, Maris (editor)

Date: 1978

Language: en

Find in a Library: 4004118

A collection of papers on family history and demography in the United States. Based on 1974 Williams College seminar. Coedited by the author of "Amoskeag": a study in oral history on millwork in Manchester, New Hampshire. From a review of "Family and…

Tags: Community: Customs and Social Life, Demography, Emigration and Immigration, Ethnicity and Collective Identity, Family, Massachusetts, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- Demography, Nonfiction -- History -- Labor and Social, Social History, United States

Le F.A.R.O.G. Forum : autopsie d'un journal d'Ã©veil et de combat

Author: Brousseau, Yves

Date: 1983

Thesis Type: B.A., GÃ©ographie

Institution: UniversitÃ© Laval

Language: fr

Find in a Library: 77425445

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MÃ©moire de rÃ©cherche qui explore le journal du Centre Franco-AmÃ©rican de l'UniversitÃ© du Maine - Le F.A.R.O.G. Forum - de 1972 aux annÃ©es 1980. SituÃ© dans le contexte de journalisme franco-amÃ©ricain, et comme publication…

Tags: Education, Government and Politics, Journalism, Language and Linguistics, New England, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- Education, Nonfiction -- History -- Clubs and Societies, Nonfiction -- History -- Labor and Social, Nonfiction -- Journalism, Orono ME

Radicals of the Worst Sort : Laboring Women in Lawrence, Massachusetts, 1860-1912

Author: Cameron, Ardis

Date: 1995

Language: en

Find in a Library: 26932573

Find Online: OL9368720M

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New England women's labor history text from a professor of American and New England studies at the University of Southern Maine. Focuses on Lawrence, Massachusetts, as a town with a diversity of worker and ethnic experience, and the relationship…

Tags: Death and Disaster, Gender and Sexuality, Government and Politics, Labor History, Lawrence MA, Lowell MA, Massachusetts, Mills and Mill Work, New England, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- History -- Labor and Social, Social History, Violence

Of Place and Gender: Women in Maine History

Author: Weiner, Marli Frances (editor)

Date: 2005

Language: en

Find in a Library: 61184330

Find Online: OL9521726M

From UMaine Press: "This volume of fourteen essays on Maine women's history fills a real need, helping to answer questions about what women were doing in local communities and highlighting their similarities and differences from women elsewhere.…

Transforming Women's Work : New England Lives in the Industrial Revolution

Author: Dublin, Thomas

Date: 1994

Language: en

Find in a Library: 29255277

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Women at Work : The Transformation of Work and Community in Lowell, Massachusetts, 1826-1860

Author: Dublin, Thomas

Date: 1979

Language: en

Find in a Library: 4805234

Find Online: OL1859015W

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From Columbia University Press: "In this prize-winning study, Thomas Dublin explores, in carefully researched detail, the lives and experiences of the first generation of American women to face the demands of industrial capitalism. Dublin describes…

Farm to Factory : Women's Letters, 1830-1860

Author: Dublin, Thomas (editor)

Date: 1981 (1993)

Language: en

Find in a Library: 7203495

Find Online: OL9817988M

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From Columbia University Press: "Between 1820 and 1860, tens of thousands of single women streamed from rural New England to find work in the burgeoning factory towns of the region. In 'Farm to Factory' Thomas Dublin has selected five sets of letters…

Ah les Ã‰tats! : Les travailleurs canadiens-francÌ§ais dans l'industrie textile de la Nouvelle-Angleterre d'apreÌ€s le teÌmoignage des derniers migrants

Author: Rouillard, Jacques

Date: 1985

Language: fr

Find in a Library: 14129807

Find Online: OL2763322M

Un portrait historique des travailleurs canadiens-franÃ§ais aux Ã‰tats-Unis, dans les usines de la Nouvelle-Angleterre, au prÃ©miere moitiÃ© du 20e siÃ¨cle. Les synthÃ¨ses historiques de l'immigration et du travail, avec certaines…

A Shoe-Maker's Story: Being chiefly about French Canadian immigrants, enterprising photographers, rascal Yankees, and Chinese cobblers in a nineteenth-century factory town

Author: Lee, Anthony W.

Date: 2008

Language: en

Find in a Library: 171048914

Find Online: OL20734799M

A history of photography, shoemaking, mining, and immigration as they converged on North Adams, Massachusetts, in the 1870s. From the text: "...[this book] is concerned...with the industrialization of a New England craft at one of its key historical…

Tags: Art and Architecture, Business and Economics, Emigration and Immigration, Government and Politics, Labor History, Lowell MA, Mills and Mill Work, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- History -- Economic and Industrial, Nonfiction -- History -- Labor and Social, North Adams MA, Waltham MA

Nine Lives for Labor

Author: Kelly, Richard

Date: 1956

Language: en

Find in a Library: 409348

Find Online: OL17918453M

A biographical tribute to nine members of the Textile Workers Union of America, represented in mills across the industrial United States. Characterization of conditions at various mills, including those in Fall River, Massachusetts, and Cohoes, New…

Tags: Bedford MA, Cohoes NY, Fall River MA, Labor History, Lawrence MA, Lowell MA, Lynchburg VA, Memphis TN, Mills and Mill Work, Nashville TN, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- History -- Economic and Industrial, Nonfiction -- History -- Labor and Social, Personal History: Biography and Oral History, Philadelphia PA

Immigrant Voices : New Lives in America, 1773-1986

Author: Dublin, Thomas (editor)

Date: 1993

Language: en

Find in a Library: 26636102

Find Online: OL1859013W

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From University of Illinois Press: "In this richly evocative collection ten men and women of European, Latin American, and Asian backgrounds tell of their immigrant experiences. They range from a Shetland Islander who sailed to Virginia as an…

Tags: Chicago IL, Emigration and Immigration, Italy, Korea, Mexico, New York NY, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- History -- Labor and Social, Nonfiction -- Immigration, Personal History: Biography and Oral History, Puerto Rico, Russia, Sacramento CA, Shetland Islands, United States, Vietnam

Working-Class Community in Industrial America : Work, Leisure, and Struggle in Two Industrial Cities, 1880-1930

Author: Cumbler, John Taylor, Jr.

Date: 1979

Language: en

Find in a Library: 4492431

Find Online: OL4743780M

Based on the research for Cumbler's 1974 dissertation, "Continuity and Disruption," this text is a narrower (twenty years fewer), illustrated exploration of ethnicity woven through the working-class communities of Lynn and Fall River, Massachusetts.…

Tags: Boston MA, Bowenville MA, Business and Economics, Community: Customs and Social Life, Ethnicity and Collective Identity, Fall River MA, Government and Politics, Labor History, Lynn MA, Massachusetts, Mills and Mill Work, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- History -- Economic and Industrial, Nonfiction -- History -- Labor and Social, Social History, Sports and Leisure

Lowell : The Story of an Industrial City : A Guide to Lowell National Historical Park and Lowell Heritage State Park, Lowell, Massachusetts

Author: Dublin, Thomas

Date: 1992

Language: en

Find in a Library: 24214090

Find Online: OL1549242M

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From the inside cover: "Lowell, Massachusetts, was America's first large-scale planned industrial community. After its establishment as a town in 1826, Lowell was celebrated for its innovative textile technology and its unique workforce of young…

Tags: Business and Economics, Community: Customs and Social Life, Concord River VAlley, East Chelmsford MA, Emigration and Immigration, Ethnicity and Collective Identity, Labor History, Lawrence MA, Lowell MA, Merrimack River Valley, Mills and Mill Work, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- History -- Economic and Industrial, Nonfiction -- History -- Labor and Social, Pawtucketville MA, Religion, Social History, Travel and Movement

The Belles of New England : The Women of the Textile Mills and the Families Whose Wealth They Wove

Author: Moran, William

Date: 2002

Language: en

Find in a Library: 49627749

Find Online: OL9515646M

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A history of New England women during industrialization, and the lifestyle differences among women of different economic classes. From Thomas Dunne Books: "This is a masterful, definitive, and eloquent look at the enormous cultural and economic…

Labor and the Shut-Down of the Amoskeag Textile Mills

Author: Creamer, Daniel Barnett
Author: Coulter, Charles Wellsley

Date: 1971

Language: en

Find in a Library: 241413

Reprinting of a 1939 publication funded by the Works Progress Administration. Exploration of the economic conditions in Manchester, New Hampshire, and the economic climate surrounding the mill complex of the Amoskeag Manufacturing Corporation. The…

Tags: Boston MA, Business and Economics, Community: Customs and Social Life, Demography, England, Ethnicity and Collective Identity, Fall River MA, Labor History, Manchester NH, Massachusetts, Merrimack River Valley, Mills and Mill Work, New Hampshire, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- History -- Economic and Industrial, Nonfiction -- History -- Labor and Social, Social History

Immigrant City : Lawrence, Massachusetts, 1845-1921

Author: Cole, Donald

Date: 2002 (1963)

Language: en

Find in a Library: 475026

Find Online: OL7972822M

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A history of the city of Lawrence, Massachusetts, as a site of mass industrialization, diverse immigration, and unique dynamics of class and ethnicity around the turn of the 20th century. From UNC Press: "The violence and radicalism connected with…

Collective Efforts Among Maine Workers : Beginnings and Foundations, 1820-1880

Author: Scontras, Charles A.

Date: 1994

Language: en

Find in a Library: 31188167

A restorative history of the birth and early life of organized labor in Maine in the middle of the nineteenth century, on the rise of the industrial period. From the preface: "The history of organized labor in Maine has been ignored by the State's…

Tags: Business and Economics, Ethnicity and Collective Identity, Farming and Agriculture, Fishing, Forestry, Government and Politics, Labor History, Maine, Mills and Mill Work, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- History -- Labor and Social, Social History, War

The Run of the Mill : A Pictorial Narrative of the Expansion, Dominion, Decline, and Enduring Impact of the New England Textile Industry

Author: Dunwell, Steve

Date: 1978

Language: en

Find in a Library: 4443770

Find Online: OL4743753M

A chronicle of centuries of labor in black and white photographs. Historical and modern perspectives on mills, industrial towns, and workers in New England from the earliest industrialization period to the 1970s. From the inside flap: "The full force…

Tags: Allendale RI, Androscoggin River Valley, Arctic RI, Ashton RI, Baltic CT, Blackstone MA, Burrillville RI, Cabotville MA, Charles River Valley, Community: Customs and Social Life, Derby CT, Dover NH, Emigration and Immigration, England, Exeter RI, Fiskeville RI, Forestdale RI, Georgiaville RI, Globe Village MA, Great Falls NH, Grosvenordale CT, Hadley Falls MA, Hockanum River Valley, Kenyon RI, Labor History, Lonsdale RI, Manchang MA, Manville RI, Mechanicsville CT, Middletown CT, Mills and Mill Work, Millville MA, New London CT, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- History -- Economic and Industrial, Nonfiction -- History -- Labor and Social, Nonfiction -- History -- Pictorial, North Billerica MA, North Uxbridge MA, Olneyville RI, Pascoag RI, Religion, Riverpoint RI, Rockville CT, Sawyerville NH, Slatersville RI, Social History, Stafford Springs CT, Susquehanna River Valley, Valley Falls RI, Versailles CT, Wappingers Falls NY, Wauregan CT, Whitinsville MA, Wilkinsonville CT, Winchendon MA, Woodville RI, Wyoming RI, Yantic CT

Author: Waldron, FlorenceMae

Date: 2003

Thesis Type: Ph. D., History

Institution: University of Minnesota

Language: en

Find in a Library: 55504516

A study of gender in the context of Quebecois immigration to the United States over a sixty-year period (1870-1930). Observations on gender evidenced in the labor statistics of this time period. The foundation and development of a Franco American…

Tags: Business and Economics, Demography, Emigration and Immigration, Ethnicity and Collective Identity, Family, Gender and Sexuality, Labor History, Lewiston ME, Mills and Mill Work, New England, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- History -- Labor and Social, Nonfiction -- Immigration, QuÃ©bec, Worcester MA

Immigration of French Canadians to New England, 1840-1900 : A Geographical Analysis

Author: Vicero, Ralph

Date: 1968

Thesis Type: Ph. D., Geography

Institution: University of Wisconsin

Language: en

Find in a Library: 2934957

Find Online: OL13204047W

Study of French-Canadian emigration into the United States during the nineteenth century. Pivotal research in French Canadian emigration. Includes maps that show migration patterns from specific Canadian regions to specific areas in New England. From…

The Franco-Americans in a New England Community : An Experiment in Survival

Author: Theriault, George F.

Date: 1951

Thesis Type: Ph. D., Sociology

Institution: Harvard University

Language: en

Find in a Library: 77000216

Find Online: OL6321010W

A dissertation in sociology on the Franco Americans of Nashua, New Hampshire, previous to 1950, their community culture, and the implications of American assimilation on their social, linguistic, and religious norms.

Tags: Acculturation and Assimilation, Ethnicity and Collective Identity, Language and Linguistics, Nashua NH, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- History -- Labor and Social, Religion, Social History

Migration, Family, and Gender : A Longitudinal Analysis of French-Canadian Immigrants in Lowell, Massachussetts, 1900-1920

Author: Takai, Yukari

Date: 1999

Thesis Type: Ph. D., History

Institution: UniversiteÌ de MontreÌal

Language: en

Find in a Library: 46428729

From Takai: "'Migration, Family, and Gender: A Longitudinal Study of French-Canadian Immigrants in Lowell , Massachusetts , 1900-1920,' explores migration from French Canada to a New England urban centre of the textile industry, Lowell,…

The Sentinelle Affair (1924-1929) and Militant Survivance : The Franco-American Experience in Woonsocket, Rhode Island

Author: Sorrell, Richard Sherman

Date: 1975

Thesis Type: Ph. D., History

Institution: State University of New York at Buffalo

Language: en

Find in a Library: 3129396

Definitive text on the background and maneuverings of the Sentinelle Affair in Woonsocket, Rhode Island. How the relationship between Catholic Church leaders and lay Franco Americans in Woonsocket was tempered by the empassioning pull of 'la…

Tags: Education, Ethnicity and Collective Identity, Government and Politics, Journalism, Labor History, Manchester NH, Mills and Mill Work, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- History -- Labor and Social, Nonfiction -- History -- Religion, Religion, Woonsocket RI

The Spindle City : Labor, Politics, and Religion in Fall River, Massachusetts, 1870-1905

Author: Silvia, Philip Thomas, Jr.

Date: 1973

Thesis Type: Ph. D., History

Institution: Fordham University

Language: en

Find in a Library: 5661072

The place of Fall River, Massachusetts, in the United States' 19th-century industrial boom, its ensuing period of immigration and cultural diversification, and the birth of the American middle class. A massive and in-depth dissertation that pays…

Tags: Community: Customs and Social Life, Demography, Emigration and Immigration, Fall River MA, Government and Politics, Labor History, Massachusetts, Mills and Mill Work, Native Americans, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- Government and Politics, Nonfiction -- History -- Labor and Social, Nonfiction -- History -- Religion, Quequechan River Valley, Religion, Social History, Taunton River Valley

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Contras, Squares & Rounds : Fiddling the Night Away at Local Dances

Death and Rebirth of the American Mill Town

The New England League: A Baseball History, 1885-1949 (review)

First-Person America

"Why Don't You Be a Klansman?" Anglo-Canadian Support for the Ku Klux Klan Movement in 1920s New England

Les "Chinois" de l'est, ou, la vie quotidienne des QueÌbeÌcois Ã©migreÌs aux Ã‰tats-Unis de 1840 aÌ€ nos jours

Family and Population in Nineteenth-Century America

Le F.A.R.O.G. Forum : autopsie d'un journal d'Ã©veil et de combat

Radicals of the Worst Sort : Laboring Women in Lawrence, Massachusetts, 1860-1912

Of Place and Gender: Women in Maine History

Transforming Women's Work : New England Lives in the Industrial Revolution

Women at Work : The Transformation of Work and Community in Lowell, Massachusetts, 1826-1860

Farm to Factory : Women's Letters, 1830-1860

Ah les Ã‰tats! : Les travailleurs canadiens-francÌ§ais dans l'industrie textile de la Nouvelle-Angleterre d'apreÌ€s le teÌmoignage des derniers migrants

A Shoe-Maker's Story: Being chiefly about French Canadian immigrants, enterprising photographers, rascal Yankees, and Chinese cobblers in a nineteenth-century factory town

Nine Lives for Labor

Immigrant Voices : New Lives in America, 1773-1986

Working-Class Community in Industrial America : Work, Leisure, and Struggle in Two Industrial Cities, 1880-1930

Lowell : The Story of an Industrial City : A Guide to Lowell National Historical Park and Lowell Heritage State Park, Lowell, Massachusetts

The Belles of New England : The Women of the Textile Mills and the Families Whose Wealth They Wove

Labor and the Shut-Down of the Amoskeag Textile Mills

Immigrant City : Lawrence, Massachusetts, 1845-1921

Collective Efforts Among Maine Workers : Beginnings and Foundations, 1820-1880

The Run of the Mill : A Pictorial Narrative of the Expansion, Dominion, Decline, and Enduring Impact of the New England Textile Industry

Gender and the QuÃ©bÃ©cois Migration to New England, 1870-1930 : A Comparative Case Study

Immigration of French Canadians to New England, 1840-1900 : A Geographical Analysis

The Franco-Americans in a New England Community : An Experiment in Survival

Migration, Family, and Gender : A Longitudinal Analysis of French-Canadian Immigrants in Lowell, Massachussetts, 1900-1920

The Sentinelle Affair (1924-1929) and Militant Survivance : The Franco-American Experience in Woonsocket, Rhode Island

The Spindle City : Labor, Politics, and Religion in Fall River, Massachusetts, 1870-1905